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Monday, September 30, 2024
YouTube Spotlight: A Double Shot of My David Groh
Sunday, September 29, 2024
Top Ten #321: Special "Bryant Gumbel's Birthday" Edition!
Saturday, September 28, 2024
YouTube Spotlight: The pinnacle of this feature
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Show Notes and Video Playlist: Episode 12-7: Rhoda
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Episode 12-7: Rhoda
After four seasons on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary's best pal Rhoda (Valerie Harper) returned to New York City for a visit and ended up staying for her own show, aptly titled Rhoda! At the behest of the man with the golden gut Fred Silverman, the creative team rushed her into marriage with Joe (David Groh), a decision that ultimately led to major creative changes. We delve into that, then look at episode 10 "The Honeymoon," which doesn't turn out exactly how Rhoda and Joe expected it to thanks Rhoda's parents.
#podcast #tv #retrotv #seventies #rhoda #valerieharper #marytylermooreshow #spinoff
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Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Monday, September 23, 2024
This Day in TV History: Cheers and Hill Street Blues win at the 1984 Emmys
40 years ago tonight, the big winners at the Emmys were Cheers and Hill Street Blues.
It's no surprise, in retrospect, those shows won the big Comedy and Drama prizes, but I do find the other nominees in that Comedy category interesting:
Buffalo Bill
Family Ties
Kate and Allie
Newhart
Sunday, September 22, 2024
Top Ten #320: Special "Full week or so after the Emmys" Edition!
Friday, September 20, 2024
Promo Theatre: Robert Guillaume sounds almost as cool as Ernie Anderson
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Encore: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Love is all around as we revisit our episode about the iconic sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Mary wants a raise. Instead, she has to mastermind WJM's new "fun" news format. Everything should run smoothly as long as no one tells Ted he's the straight man. Oops! Plus...Gilligan's Island?
#podcast #tv #retrotv #seventies #marytylermoore #themarytylermooreshow #mtm
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Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
RetroFan Magazine brings it
Monday, September 16, 2024
This Day in TV History: Marjoe's BLISTERING performance on Medical Center would earn him a Batty
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Top Ten #319: Special "Emmy Fever" Edition!
4) The Love Boat Fall Preview Party: ABC did a couple of these, and I really want to see the one that aired 40 years ago tonight previewing the 1984 Fall season. Here's a glimpse of the 1983 version:
Friday, September 13, 2024
YouTube Spotlight: 007 on MTV
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Show Notes and Video Playlist: Episode 12-6: Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Episode 12-6: Lifestyles of the Rich And Famous
This week, we cover another listener poll runner-up, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous with Robin Leach. As you'd expect, this 1985 episode includes a lot of rich and famous people living their lives in style from the "discreetly opulent" St. James Club in Antigua to Beverly Hills to Miami to Mexico City. We're possibly more interested in Sucrets and aspirin than champagne and caviar but keep an ear out for the likes of Joan Collins, Julio Iglesias, Liza, Ann-Marget, and Esther Williams.
#podcast #tv #retrotv #robinleach #eighties #lifestylesoftherichandfamous
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Power Rankings: 10 who did NOT have variety shows (but could have) in the 1970s
Monday, September 9, 2024
YouTube Spotlight: Go Hawaiian!
Sunday, September 8, 2024
Top Ten #318: Special "Here we go" Edition!
Friday, September 6, 2024
Show Notes and Episode Playlist: Episode 12-5: Donny and Marie
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Episode 12-5: Donny and Marie
Last season, Sonny and Cher narrowly beat out Donny and Marie in a listener poll, but we promised to cover Donny and Marie this season, and here we are! In our cutest episode to date, the brother-sister duo celebrates the history of TV with regular Paul Lynde and the likes of Milton Berle, Art Linkletter, and the one and only George Gobel! This one has everything you'd expect from a seventies variety show: celebrities, singing, dancing, "comedy"...and ice skating.
#podcast #tv #retrotv #seventies #varietyshow #donnyandmarie #osmonds
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Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
YouTube Spotlight: Norman Fell
One of my favorite clips from this week's YouTube playlist is this Norman Fell commercial.
On one hand, we all love the image of Fell as Stanley Roper grinning at the camera. Let's try, difficult as it is, to remove that picture from our mind. If you take out the mugging Stanley from Fell's repertoire (not that I want to), is there any better combination of pitchman and product than he and Pepto?
Monday, September 2, 2024
New to streaming for September
Roku Channel added Voyagers! and In the Heat of the Night. I think I missed that Police Story was on here, too. I tell you something: Roku Channel does a great job of burying material that interests me.
The channel also has some of the old MGM shows that make the rounds: Sea Hunt, Flipper, Bat Masterson, The Outer Limits. You know what I would like to see? Highway Patrol. That one has been on a lot of different TV channels in recent years but has never made it to streaming.
Warner Brothers Discovery continues its strategy of loading up MAX with the "Discovery" portion of its catalogue while dumping the "Warner Brothers" on the free streamers. Plex is the big recipient lately.
Sunday, September 1, 2024
Top Ten #317: Special "National Square Dance Month" Edition!
1) Dan August: Mike and I have a great time discussing this 1970 series on BOTNS this week. It's not the best cop show of its era, but it has its virtues, and I wish it had more than one season.
2) Quinn Martin: It was great to get QM on the podcast. I sometimes wish I were IN a Quinn Martin Production. The production values and guest stars would be better, at least.
3) Norman Fell: I see Burt Reynolds insisting his co-star get the slot above him on the Top Ten list, then "dropping by to support him" and smirking for the remaining 10 minutes of his segment. All in good fun, of course.
4) Burt Reynolds: See? Here he is already!
5) Harrison Ford: It was just so cool seeing him show up on Dan August for the pod this week. Has anyone ever asked him about this appearance? I bet he'd play it all cool, like he barely remembered playing an ultimately insignificant drifter for a few scenes on a single-season show that has largely been forgotten nearly 55 years after it aired...but we know better!
6) Gary Coleman: The late star is the subject of a new documentary that Peacock just premiered, and honestly, it looks really, really sad. I might have to revisit some of those TV movies after watching this.
7) Hardcastle and McCormick: RIDE! The boys are back, and this time they are streaming on Roku Channel. Your move, Netflix.
8) The Fall Guy: With the 2024 movie hitting Peacock, isn't it about time the series made it to streaming again? Hulu had the first two seasons a couple years ago. This feels like a Tubi show, if Disney will let it go.
9) The Odd Couple: There's a marathon of the show this weekend, but don't ASSUME you have the channel (Catchy Comedy) because, as Felix tells us, when you assume...
10) R.I.P. Sid Eudy: The man who ruled the world!